Colorado's Attorney General Phillip Weiser took on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that a web designer couldn't be compelled to create websi
Coloradoās Attorney GeneralĀ Phillip WeiserĀ took on theĀ U.S. Supreme Courtās rulingĀ that a web designer couldnāt be compelled to create wedding websites for LGBTQ couples, calling the decision a ālicense to discriminate.ā
MSNBCāsĀ Simone BoyceĀ asked Weiser whatĀ Justice GorsuchĀ meant when he wrote, āUnder Coloradoās logic, the government may compel anyone who speaks for pay on a particular topic to accept all commissions on that same topic.ā
āWhat he is trying to say is that here is someone that had a free speech interest that was being implicated in a negative way,ā Weiser said. He continued:
But the problem, first offā¦this is a made-up case. This was based on hypotheticals, and the court didnāt have to deal with the whole equation. In a real case, you have a victim who is denied services, and the consequences of the courtās ruling would be much more self-evident. But second, letās be clear, here; whoever creates a website, or whoever creates any artistic work can make whatever they want. Our position, they have to sell it to everyone, and they cannot restrict the sales in a public business because they donāt like someoneās ethnicity, religion, race, what have you.
